Math on Soundrop App

After watching a few Lynda videos, I learned about a fun little app called Soundrop.  This works like Pong, sort of. You draw in lines for the balls to bounce off of. Each line has a different tone that is based on position, size and maybe a few other constraints.

I decided to check out the geometry - angles of reflection and patterns - that the balls were making.  In order to modify the constraints like gravity, I purchased the app. Needless to say, middle school students might be interested to see that a line can be given a fart tone.

After drawing a line on the screen, I used some wax paper to trace the line and patterns that were made. I then formulated some conjectures. Take a look at one of my investigations in the graphic below.

Screenchomp audio

A few of you reported issues with the microphone in Screenchomp. Steven found the setting.

Go to the privacy setting and open the microphone menu. Then you will see the toggle for sound after each program.  Also I learned from you guys that using multiple pages in Educreations works well when showing off the apps. Be sure to start the recording on the first page. 

Ball State Math Dept iPad Meeting #1

iPad Mathematics Department Meeting - March 26, 2014

Holly, Crystal, Brian, John A., Janet, Kathy

We discussed what everyone was doing

Janet is projecting the 125 text, but is unable to view Visi

Janet is using a calculator app and a stats apps called Statistics Vizualizer (statviz), StatCalcLite, and the Blackboard app (works better on campus).

Crystal shared information on Aurasma.

Holly is making videos with Educreations and uploading to Bb.

Holly would like to find apps for Business Calculus.

Discussed

• Blackboard - how to put hot links into a content area
• Educreations - can add multiple pages with screenshots before recording and upload links to Internet.  Not sure if there are storage or bandwidth issues.

Tips for use

• Tap text to select, copy and paste from one program to another.  This is important when sharing url’s.
• Statistics apps need csv files that can be easily made in Excel.  These can also be made in Numbers (Apple’s Excel).

Suggested apps that were showcased

• Bell Curve
• Notability (not free but very good)

Kathy’s apps for this week include:

• Genius Scan - take a picture with the camera and it is now a pdf file.

• Myscript Calculator - handwriting calculator
• Quick Graph - nice function grapher

Suggested courses from Lynda.com - Some of the chapters contain relevant information to our setting.  Click on Browse Library - Teacher Tools and then go down the list to iPad. BSU faculty and students have free access to Lynda, but must log in from the BSU website.

• iPad Tips and Tricks
• iPad Fundamentals

I am sure that there is something I forgot, or might not be accurate, so please use the comment box below to add information. Also, share tips, hints and GOOD APPS for us to check out.

NCTM Illuminations Applet

http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activity.aspx?id=4186

Basic Tool - good one to evaluate.

Genius Scan

Scan to JPEG or PDF
Another friend of mine uses this app - genius scan

Issue with Myscript calculator

A friend of mine alerted me to the fact that this app "knows" order of operations. When reviewing for ISTEP, the students had to use a calculator that did not and they worked left to right. Now the teachers do not use this app.

MindMeister

So this is a cool program the you can access via Google Drive.  I can edit maps on multiple machines in real time but only three map are available in the free version. This might not show the map so I am adding a screen shot.  I can insert links and files.
My First Mind Map

I forgot to hit PUBLISH so this was sitting on my site as a SAVED page.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ySRrNGfi-Q2wPtZhvb9zE4pBIl0e6AZEf_SGn95RLZ4/edit

Educreations public

The lesson below was set as pvt and this one is public. I want to see how they are different.

LMS

Now the real fun begins. Every teacher has to use a Learning Management System of some sort. The ones I have used with real live students are:

Angel

BlackBoard

Moodle 

Ones that I have experimented with are Edmodo and just the other day - Schoology.  I have teacher friends who use My Big Campus. There are many flavores to choose from. Wikispaces has LMS features and the education package of Google Docs does as well. While this is not a focus of our course, taking tome to go beyond what you know about Bb would be a wise thing to do.

IBook Author

So I had a plan to use iBook Author because it is a popular app. The interface is similar to keynote and rapidweaver. After looking at a few templates it became clear that to create a lesson I would be doing a lot of copy / paste type of work as well as formatting pages, chapter sections and what not. The learning curve was okay but the production time for a lesson plan was not realistic. The main drawback is that the authoring has to take place on the Mac.  I can find an online textbook that will be good enough.

One final thing to mention is that when I emailed the file to be opened on the iPad it did not work. I think the book has to be published in iBook to have access to it.  More learning involved on this one to really test it out so I passed.  The pages are pretty though.

update: If the file is small enough you can send a link to be downloaded otherwise you have to physically attach the iPad to your computer to install the book.   ~vm

Google Docs Lesson File

Where did the toolbar go?

I can paste the link but that is so sloppy

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ySRrNGfi-Q2wPtZhvb9zE4pBIl0e6AZEf_SGn95RLZ4/edit

This is from the weekend.  One issue I just learned is that I don't know if I can change the share setting from within the iPad app.  Will have to share via my Mac.

Evernote has potential

One of the first programs I sent files to was Evernote.  Screenchomp and Skitch allow sharing directly to Evernote.  Also, I have an account.   I really like that I can add a narration within a note and that I could share a Notebook (sets of notes).  So here are a few examples:
myScript MathPad

Skitch

Sample Note with attached GGB file and an audio clip

Digital Artifact in Keynote

I started out in Keynote because this is the native presentation tool for Apple products. I was able to share the file via the cloud but I ended up editing different versions and corrupted the file. What you see here is not the final version because I moved on to MindMeister.


https://www.icloud.com/iw/#keynote/BAI-ASAev2yrQW3FL8eBlYsAElDbmcexyfuE/Ta_da

Linking tool is funky

Screenchomp - my rhombus

Here is the static graphic. 

Click on the URL to see my recording.

http://www.screenchomp.com/t/TFsmtFN0tnOO

Educreations geometry tools

http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/starting/18127604/?ref=app

Insert photo from App, mark up as recording

MATH 331 testing ground

Will this work as a way to store and share files?

These are static screen shots.  I would like to resize them.